You can create your own miracle, but you do it by never looking past all the little steps along the way.

I have been here before in my head. To everyone else, it is my first Olympics. To me, it's my thousandth.

I may have become a world champion quicker than most, but people should look at me and realise there are all kinds of ways to get where you want to go. Because we didn't plan it. We just did it.

A perfect day for me would just be a day that goes the way I plan.

I was lucky enough that my parents knew about World Cup skiing, so since I was really little, we were watching World Cup winning runs.

I think its good to stimulate your mind.

When I was 3 years old, I thought I was very good at skiing.

I remember skiing being a family recreational thing.

I love traveling and seeing new things, learning the histories of different cultures. But I've always wanted to go to the Galapagos to see the giant turtles.

If you know how it is to be without food then you will appreciate your daily provisions.

The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.

If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.

I looked to the window. Patch was gone, but a single black feather was pressed to the outer pane, held in place by last night's rain. Or Angel Magic

We have God's joy in our blood.

True affluence is to not need anything.

What makes me angry is closed mindedness, prejudice against those who are different from you, reveling in one's own ignorance.

The problem in our community is not the women - I mean, they've done all they can do.

I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.

The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space.